Thieves responsible for the Drents Museum heist left with a gold Coțofenești helmet and three Dacian royal bracelets, the museum said.

Robbers used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in Assen over the weekend and nab three antique bracelets and a 2,500-year-old gold helmet.

Among the stolen artifacts were the golden helmet of Coțofenești and three golden bracelets that dated back to the ancient Dacians.

All the stolen objects were part of a visiting exhibition, named aptly ‘Dacia - Empire of Gold and Silver’ from the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest.

The 5th-century BC Helmet of Cotofenesti was among the valuable items taken during an overnight heist at Drents Museum in the Netherlands.

Dutch police on Wednesday arrested three men in connection with a brazen heist of ancient Romanian artifacts at a museum in the northeastern

Police investigating the daring burglary at the Drents Museum in Assen have released a series of photographs featuring a man wanted in connection with the robbery. The images were caught by a security camera at a hardware store in Assen,

The police have issued several photographs of a man they want to interview in connection with last weekend’s gold heist in Assen. The man, wearing glasses and a baseball cap, was seen in a DIY store in Assen on the previous Thursday,

The blast took place in the middle of the night, allowing the burglars to abscond with four valuable objects connected to Romania's cultural heritage

Thieves used explosives to pull of a shocking heist at a Dutch museum and made off with priceless gold treasures.

An exquisitely carved gold helmet from a Thracian tribe is among the ancient artifacts that were stolen from a museum in the Netherlands.

These days, heists are few and far between. Gone are the days when you could step onto an airplane and jump out of the tail section with a parachute and $200,000 in cash. However, the recent theft of a priceless golden artifact from a Dutch museum seems to signal that heists could be coming back in style.